Apart from this, the Commissioner met with the delegation of CoE Committee of Ministers’ Group of Rapporteurs on Democracy, headed by Mr. Alexander Guessel. In the meeting, it has been mainly discussed the issues of ensuring fundamental human rights and freedoms, development of civil society institutions and non-governmental organizations, improvement of the relevant national legislation, bilateral cooperation, situation in penitentiary system and the NPM activity. Also, the SPT delegation headed by Ms. Aisha Shujune Muhammad paid visit to the country to monitor the places of which persons are not allowed to leave at will. At the meeting, the guests were given broad information about Ombudsman’s NPM activity, including the monitoring in the places of which persons are not allowed to leave at will, such as prisons, TDPs, education, health and social-care institutions, proposals made to the state authorities in relation to improve the relevant legislation, legal awareness activities, NPM’s best practice and discussed the future perspectives of the bilateral cooperation. The delegation members were presented NPM Reports. In the meeting with the CPT members experts Mr. James McMANUS and Mr. Alexander Minchev the issues on NPM activity, in the places of which persons are not allowed to leave at will, such as prisons, TDPs, education, health and social-care institutions, proposals made to the state authorities in relation to improve the relevant legislation, legal awareness activities, NPM’s best practice and discussed the future perspectives of the bilateral cooperation. In 2015, CoE Fact-Finding Mission Ms. Tanja Rakusic Hadzic and Mr. John McAllen were received by the Ombudsman in the Office. The meeting was focused on the NPM activity, the monitoring in places, which are not allowed to leave at will, such as penitentiary institutions, TDPs, investigation isolators, social-care institutions, including boarding houses for the elderly and PWDs, psychiatric clinics and the relevant measures taken. The Commissioner told about her collaboration with state authorities, non-governmental organizations, mass media, international organizations, including SPT, CPT, APT, and foreign NPMs and answered the experts’ questions. In the frame of the NPM’s international cooperation, the bilateral relations with UNICEF Baku Office were progressed successfully, which resulted with several joint training and seminars. On 2 March 2015, NPG member participated in CPT conference held in Strasbourg, France with support of CoE on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the committee. This conference was attended by NHRIs and NPMs of 47 member states, ministries of justice, penitentiary services, CPT 69